From dc08490ac7547403e306b1ba2c00a158933854ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 18:24:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More changes for the manual * doc/emacs/anti.texi (Antinews): Replace 25.2 with 25.3. Reported by Michael Albinus in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/custom.texi (Function Keys): Improve wording. Suggested by clemens.radermacher@posteo.de in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/misc.texi (History References): Improve punctuation. (Terminal emulator): Fix a typo. (Term Mode): Remove redundant repeated text. (Invoking emacsclient): Improve wording. Suggested by Alberto Sartori in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/files.texi (Visiting): Fix last change. --- doc/emacs/anti.texi | 10 +++++----- doc/emacs/custom.texi | 2 +- doc/emacs/files.texi | 4 ++-- doc/emacs/misc.texi | 18 +++++++----------- 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/emacs/anti.texi b/doc/emacs/anti.texi index 0ae81595746..b91516315ad 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/anti.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/anti.texi @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ @c Update the emacs.texi Antinews menu entry with the above version number. For those users who live backwards in time, here is information -about downgrading to Emacs version 25.2. We hope you will enjoy the +about downgrading to Emacs version 25.3. We hope you will enjoy the greater simplicity that results from the absence of many @w{Emacs @value{EMACSVER}} features. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ should be monochrome, but you will have to keep downgrading to older Emacs versions to have that feature back.) @item -Emacs 25.2 no longer supports magic signatures of the form +Emacs 25.3 no longer supports magic signatures of the form @samp{#!/usr/bin/env @var{interpreter}} in scripts. Moving back in time means you are getting closer to the ideal of the original Unix design where all the interpreters lived in a single directory @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ ballast. The double-buffering feature of Emacs display on X has been removed. We decided that its complexity and a few random surprising side-effects aren't justified by the gains, even though those gains -were hailed in some quarters. Yes, Emacs 25.2 will flicker in some +were hailed in some quarters. Yes, Emacs 25.3 will flicker in some use cases, but we are sure Emacs users will be able to suck it, as they have been doing for years. Since this feature is gone, we've also removed the @code{inhibit-double-buffering} frame parameter, @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ all those fancy options! @item The complication known as ``single-line horizontal scrolling'' is no -longer with you in Emacs 25.2. This feature was a bow to ``other +longer with you in Emacs 25.3. This feature was a bow to ``other editors''; instead, let those other editors bow to Emacs by hscrolling the entire window at all times. Repeat after me: ``The Emacs way is the Only Way!'' @@ -166,5 +166,5 @@ removed. Examples include @code{replace-buffer-contents} and @item To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many -other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 25.2. +other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 25.3. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/emacs/custom.texi b/doc/emacs/custom.texi index 5b2ab8280d1..e27760b3796 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/custom.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/custom.texi @@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@ key. Many keyboards have a numeric keypad on the right hand side. The numeric keys in the keypad double up as cursor motion keys, toggled by a key labeled @samp{Num Lock}. By default, Emacs -translates these keys to the corresponding keys in the main keyboard. +translates these keys to the corresponding keys on the main keyboard. For example, when @samp{Num Lock} is on, the key labeled @samp{8} on the numeric keypad produces @code{kp-8}, which is translated to @kbd{8}; when @samp{Num Lock} is off, the same key produces diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 44d19d5bd78..0b7a6bcb526 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ see @ref{Drag and Drop}, and @ref{Misc Dired Features}. On text-mode terminals and on graphical displays when Emacs was built without a GUI toolkit, you can visit files via the menu-bar -@samp{File} menu, which has a @samp{Visit New File} and @samp{Open -File} items. +@samp{File} menu, which has the @samp{Visit New File} and the +@samp{Open File} items. Each time you visit a file, Emacs automatically scans its contents to detect what character encoding and end-of-line convention it uses, diff --git a/doc/emacs/misc.texi b/doc/emacs/misc.texi index ccb213f81ba..5babd5081a9 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi @@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ buffer after it has been sent. @subsubsection Shell History References @cindex history reference - Various shells including csh and bash support @dfn{history + Various shells, including csh and bash, support @dfn{history references} that begin with @samp{!} and @samp{^}. Shell mode recognizes these constructs, and can perform the history substitution for you. @@ -1406,8 +1406,8 @@ by the faces @code{term-color-black}, @code{term-color-red}, @code{term-color-underline}, and @code{term-color-bold}. @xref{Faces}. - You can also Term mode to communicate with a device connected to a -serial port. @xref{Serial Terminal}. + You can also use Term mode to communicate with a device connected to +a serial port. @xref{Serial Terminal}. The file name used to load the subshell is determined the same way as for Shell mode. To make multiple terminal emulators, rename the @@ -1427,12 +1427,8 @@ and later. @cindex Term mode @cindex mode, Term - The terminal emulator uses Term mode, which has two input modes. In -line mode, Term basically acts like Shell mode (@pxref{Shell Mode}). -In char mode, each character is sent directly to the subshell, except -for the Term escape character, normally @kbd{C-c}. - - To switch between line and char mode, use these commands: + To switch between line and char mode in Term mode, use these +commands: @table @kbd @kindex C-c C-j @r{(Term mode)} @@ -1720,8 +1716,8 @@ Server})---then Emacs opens a frame on the terminal in which you called @command{emacsclient}. You can also force @command{emacsclient} to open a new frame on a -graphical display, or on a text terminal, using the @samp{-c} and -@samp{-t} options. @xref{emacsclient Options}. +graphical display using the @samp{-c} option, or on a text terminal +using the @samp{-t} option. @xref{emacsclient Options}. If you are running on a single text terminal, you can switch between @command{emacsclient}'s shell and the Emacs server using one of two -- 2.39.2